“Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.”
- Marian Wright Edelman
A blog for posting Light Moment daily emails from Chaplain Lavender Kelley at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
“Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.”
- Marian Wright Edelman
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
- Samuel Johnson
“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.”
- Gail Devers
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
- William S. Burroughs
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear.”
- Glenn Clark
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
- Ashley Smith
“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”
- Ivan Panin
“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
- Don Williams, Jr.
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
- John Milton
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”
- Mary Oliver
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
- Ursula K. LeGuin
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time”
- John Lubbock
“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
- Dr. Leo Buscaglia
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life, which are the real ones after all.”
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
“If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.”
- Margaret Cho
Artwork entitled “Mother and Child” by Bruni Sablan. For more of her work, go to http://www.brunijazzart.com/index.html